18.04.2006
What can ICT bring for the inhabitants of 600,000 Indian villages? How India is empowering the poor and marginalised citizens to participate in the emerging knowledge society? How will India provide voice to her millions of citizens? Taking ICT to every Indian village: Opportunities and challenges, attempts at answering such questions and exploring the complex interactions between ICT and society. more...
13.04.2006
From the Internet to Al Qaeda, the teetering electricity grid to old school ties, we live in a world of networks. A profoundly disruptive shift has occurred in our societies, making networks the most important organisational form of our time and reshaping the activities of families, governments and businesses. The collection of essays is edited by Helen McCarthy,Paul Miller and Paul Skidmore.
12.04.2006
In todays networked world, civil society organizations are recognizing the
power of the Internet for their advocacy work. While many organizations
around the world have already embraced this technology, many
organizations in Africa have not yet been able to access the wealth of
resources available through the Internet.
21.02.2006
This work sets out to explore the Brazilian information society and sustainable development programs, in an effort to locate intersection points and to identify how information society polices can collaborate in the reduction of regional inequalities in Brazil.
In her exclusive article for the Digital Opportunity Channel , Nidhi Tandon writes, womens business networks are an important step to strengthening of womens negotiating positions and advocacy for common strategic goals. She emphasises the importance of networked intelligence in changing global scenario especially for women entrepreneurs in today's globalised economy.
28.12.2005
This article by McBean aims at providing a basis for discussing issues regarding the information society, communication and partnership building between developed and developing countries.
17.11.2005
This article considers the impact of international formation using Information Communications Technology, on the training of Engineers. The issues of collaborative ventures in the evolution of curricula, syllabi and approaches to teaching are discussed.ICT causes important benefits for education, health care, environment, Job training, food security, management and government efficiency. However, unhelpful political, technical, and educational policies need to be re-visited.
17.11.2005
Information is critical to development, thus ICTs as a means of sharing information are a link in the chain of the development process itself. This position paper assesses donors commitment to ICTs, particularly whether they view ICTs as a priority area or as a set of tools. It also considers ICTs contribution to meeting the international development goals.
25.10.2005
The new Development Gateway Special Report "Information Society: Next Steps", launching October 24,2005 looks at how the ICT landscape is changing in the developing world and what lies ahead. By some estimates, more than 75 per cent of the world's population now lives within range of a mobile network. Yet the long-heralded promise of ICT remains far out of reach for most of the developing world.
